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Scaffolding
Seamus Heaney

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1966

Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough
Michael Easter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much
Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Scar Island
Dan Gemeinhart

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Scarlet
Marissa Meyer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Scary Stories for Young Foxes
Christian McKay Heidicker

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark
Alvin Schwartz

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Middle Grade | Published in 1981

Scat
Carl Hiaasen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

Scattered All Over the Earth
Yoko Tawada, Transl. Margaret Mitsutani

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder
Gabor Maté

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Scenes of Subjection
Saidiya V. Hartman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Schindler's List
Thomas Keneally

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

Schooled
Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

School Trip
Jerry Craft

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2023

Scorpions
Walter Dean Myers

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1988

Scrawl
Mark Shulman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Scritch Scratch
Lindsay Currie

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Scythe
Neal Shusterman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Seabiscuit
Laura Hillenbrand

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Seal Lullaby
Rudyard Kipling

Fiction | Poem | Middle Grade | Published in 1900

Sea of Poppies
Amitav Ghosh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Sea of Tranquility
Emily St. John Mandel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Sea Prayer
Khaled Hosseini

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Searching for Sylvie Lee
Jean Kwok

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Season of Migration to the North
Tayeb Salih

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

Second Class Citizen
Buchi Emecheta

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

Second Treatise of Government
C. B. Macpherson, ed., John Locke

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1689

Secret Daughter
Shilpi Somaya Gowda

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Secret of the Andes
Ann Nolan Clark

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1952

Secrets
Bernard Maclaverty

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1977

Secrets of a Charmed Life
Susan Meissner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Seedfolks
Paul Fleischman

Fiction | Novella | Middle Grade | Published in 1997

See How the Roses Burn!
Hafez

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1300

See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love
Valarie Kaur

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

See You in the Cosmos
Jack Cheng

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Selecting a Reader
Ted Kooser

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1980

Self Reliance
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1841

Selling Manhattan
Carol Ann Duffy

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1987

Selma, 1965
Gloria Larry House

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1965

Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1811

Separate Pasts: Growing Up White In The Segregated South
Melton A. McLaurin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1987

September 1, 1939
W. H. Auden

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1939

September Suite
Lucille Clifton

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2001

Serafina and the Black Cloak
Robert Beatty

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

Serpent & Dove
Shelby Mahurin

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Sestina
Elizabeth Bishop

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1956

Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself
Nedra Glover Tawwab

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Seven Against Thebes
Aeschylus

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 467

Seven Days in June
Tia Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City
Tanya Talaga

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Seven Guitars
August Wilson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1995

Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest
Matthew Restall

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Seventeen Syllables
Hisaye Yamamoto

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1949

Severance
Ling Ma

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Sex and Vanity: A Novel
Kevin Kwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Sexual Politics
Kate Millett

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1970

Sexy
Jhumpa Lahiri

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1998

Shades of Gray
Carolyn Reeder

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1989

Shadow and Bone
Leigh Bardugo

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Shadow Divers
Robert Kurson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Shadow Jumper
J M Forster

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

Shadow of Night
Deborah Harkness

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Shadowshaper
Daniel José Older

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Shadows of Self
Brandon Sanderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Shadows of Sherwood
Kekla Magoon

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

Shake Hands with the Devil
Roméo Dallaire

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Shaken
Tim Tebow

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Shame
Salman Rushdie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

Shanghai Girls
Lisa See

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Shantaram
Gregory David Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Shark Heart: A Love Story
Emily Habeck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Sharks In The Time Of Saviors
Kawai Strong Washburn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Sharp Objects
Gillian Flynn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Shattering Glass
Gail Giles

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

Shatter Me
Tahereh Mafi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

She Dwelt Among The Untrodden Ways
William Wordsworth

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1800

Sheep
Valerie Hobbs

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

Sheep In Fog
Sylvia Plath

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1963

She Kills Monsters
Qui Nguyen

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2011

Shell Shaker
LeAnne Howe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Shelterwood
Lisa Wingate

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

She Said
Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

She's Come Undone
Wally Lamb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

She's Not Sorry
Mary Kubica

Fiction | Memoir in Verse | Adult | Published in 2024

She Stoops to Conquer
Oliver Goldsmith

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1773

She Walks in Beauty
Lord George Gordon Byron (Lord Byron)

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1814

She Was a Phantom of Delight
William Wordsworth

Fiction | Poem | Adult

She Who Became the Sun
Shelley Parker-Chan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Shift
Hugh Howey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Shiloh
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Fiction | Novella | Middle Grade | Published in 1991

Shiloh Season
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1998

Ship Breaker
Paolo Bacigalupi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Shipwreck
Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and the Endurance
Jennifer Armstrong

Nonfiction | Biography | Middle Grade | Published in 1998

Shirley
Charlotte Brontë

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1849

Shoe Dog
Phil Knight

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

Shoe Dog: Young Readers Edition
Phil Knight

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Shoeless Joe
W.P. Kinsella

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

Shogun
James Clavell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Shooter
Walter Dean Myers

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004